sched/numa: Fix the vma scan starving issue
Problem statement: Since commitfc137c0dda
("sched/numa: enhance vma scanning logic"), the Numa vma scan overhead has been reduced a lot. Meanwhile, the reducing of the vma scan might create less Numa page fault information. The insufficient information makes it harder for the Numa balancer to make decision. Later, commitb7a5b537c5
("sched/numa: Complete scanning of partial VMAs regardless of PID activity") and commit84db47ca71
("sched/numa: Fix mm numa_scan_seq based unconditional scan") are found to bring back part of the performance. Recently when running SPECcpu omnetpp_r on a 320 CPUs/2 Sockets system, a long duration of remote Numa node read was observed by PMU events: A few cores having ~500MB/s remote memory access for ~20 seconds. It causes high core-to-core variance and performance penalty. After the investigation, it is found that many vmas are skipped due to the active PID check. According to the trace events, in most cases, vma_is_accessed() returns false because the history access info stored in pids_active array has been cleared. Proposal: The main idea is to adjust vma_is_accessed() to let it return true easier. Thus compare the diff between mm->numa_scan_seq and vma->numab_state->prev_scan_seq. If the diff has exceeded the threshold, scan the vma. This patch especially helps the cases where there are small number of threads, like the process-based SPECcpu. Without this patch, if the SPECcpu process access the vma at the beginning, then sleeps for a long time, the pid_active array will be cleared. A a result, if this process is woken up again, it never has a chance to set prot_none anymore. Because only the first 2 times of access is granted for vma scan: (current->mm->numa_scan_seq) - vma->numab_state->start_scan_seq) < 2 to be worse, no other threads within the task can help set the prot_none. This causes information lost. Raghavendra helped test current patch and got the positive result on the AMD platform: autonumabench NUMA01 base patched Amean syst-NUMA01 194.05 ( 0.00%) 165.11 * 14.92%* Amean elsp-NUMA01 324.86 ( 0.00%) 315.58 * 2.86%* Duration User 380345.36 368252.04 Duration System 1358.89 1156.23 Duration Elapsed 2277.45 2213.25 autonumabench NUMA02 Amean syst-NUMA02 1.12 ( 0.00%) 1.09 * 2.93%* Amean elsp-NUMA02 3.50 ( 0.00%) 3.56 * -1.84%* Duration User 1513.23 1575.48 Duration System 8.33 8.13 Duration Elapsed 28.59 29.71 kernbench Amean user-256 22935.42 ( 0.00%) 22535.19 * 1.75%* Amean syst-256 7284.16 ( 0.00%) 7608.72 * -4.46%* Amean elsp-256 159.01 ( 0.00%) 158.17 * 0.53%* Duration User 68816.41 67615.74 Duration System 21873.94 22848.08 Duration Elapsed 506.66 504.55 Intel 256 CPUs/2 Sockets: autonuma benchmark also shows improvements: v6.10-rc5 v6.10-rc5 +patch Amean syst-NUMA01 245.85 ( 0.00%) 230.84 * 6.11%* Amean syst-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 205.27 ( 0.00%) 191.86 * 6.53%* Amean syst-NUMA02 18.57 ( 0.00%) 18.09 * 2.58%* Amean syst-NUMA02_SMT 2.63 ( 0.00%) 2.54 * 3.47%* Amean elsp-NUMA01 517.17 ( 0.00%) 526.34 * -1.77%* Amean elsp-NUMA01_THREADLOCAL 99.92 ( 0.00%) 100.59 * -0.67%* Amean elsp-NUMA02 15.81 ( 0.00%) 15.72 * 0.59%* Amean elsp-NUMA02_SMT 13.23 ( 0.00%) 12.89 * 2.53%* v6.10-rc5 v6.10-rc5 +patch Duration User 1064010.16 1075416.23 Duration System 3307.64 3104.66 Duration Elapsed 4537.54 4604.73 The SPECcpu remote node access issue disappears with the patch applied. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240827112958.181388-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com Fixes:fc137c0dda
("sched/numa: enhance vma scanning logic") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Co-developed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yujie Liu <yujie.liu@intel.com> Reported-by: Xiaoping Zhou <xiaoping.zhou@intel.com> Reviewed-and-tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -3187,6 +3187,15 @@ static bool vma_is_accessed(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
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return true;
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/*
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* This vma has not been accessed for a while, and if the number
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* the threads in the same process is low, which means no other
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* threads can help scan this vma, force a vma scan.
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*/
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if (READ_ONCE(mm->numa_scan_seq) >
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(vma->numab_state->prev_scan_seq + get_nr_threads(current)))
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return true;
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return false;
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}
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